Top 20 Plot Holes in The Simpsons You Never Noticed

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[@herobrinesbestminion6766]

the entire future actualy. there is a episode about Homer trying to teach bart "work and reward" with a movie he wants to see, and he turns into some head judge in the future, and then there is a entire future themed one where his life is a mess.

[@thepoisonouspotato3631]

4:46 it could have been a picture of Lisa, and Maggie just wears Lisa’s old baby clothes

[@cruzjackal]

You should do one on American Dad plot holes. 1. Roger being nice 2. Toshi's family speaking English 3. Snot's mom being called Snot's mom 4. Greg and Terry's daughter, Lilith age 5. Jack becoming Krampus, but change back to human 6. Roger's abilities 7. Toshi's Russian wife 8. The antichrist appearing both a full grown and adult 9. Steve still being a virgin 10. Roger gets hurts painfully, even though he heels quickly

[@melissacooper8724]

They are all probable futures. Therefore, they aren't written in stone.

[@cruzjackal]

@@melissacooper8724 What do you mean by that?

[@camero2596]

Couldn’t baby Maggie pictures before she was born actually be a baby Lisa?

[@shannonlawhorn1674]

Was going to say the same thing.

[@emptyhollowgod]

Came to say the same

[@jordanhenry6478]

Exactly my thoughts, you see a baby picture of Bart on the wall so it makes sense for the other photo to be Lisa.

[@JamesParker1998]

I thought that as well. Maggie just got hand me down clothing.

[@James.chalmers]

No

[@KezyBugg1998]

As Bart Simpson once said: “Cartoons don’t have to make sense.”

[@maciejszypelt7623]

It was Lisa that said it

[@inukaiser]

@@maciejszypelt7623 you are right,in the episode in which Bart became a scout

[@blueraccoon1088]

Yup oh look homer is outside

[@AphasicMute]

This show would've been better off being redone as a new series like most marvel and DC animations, or anime like Dragon Ball.

[@thechillindude4478]

Homer driving what seems like miles to get to work only to end up parking by the fence at the back of his house is absolutely hilarious

[@dsxa918]

Sure

[@ThunderLizardsRule]

Yeah. 😂

[@SaintPhoenixx]

"Hi dad!" "...Ehh."

[@datsapaddlin]

The show has been on for over 30 years and have changed the plot of the past multiple times to keep up with the times while the characters don’t age.

[@TheRealBlackarrot]

The book "Simpsons Family Album" from 1991 has Simpson & Bouvier family trees . The Simpson family tree shows that Homer & Mr. Burns are actually distant relatives. This isn't exactly a plot hole since it's supplemental material from early Simpsons but it's interesting.

[@jonah.donohue]

Bart aged

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

Homer was drugging the kids to keep them at their current age.

[@mousemd]

I was going to say the same thing. How long has this show been on and they are the same age

[@meganshaw1949]

I always looked at Herb as being smarter at academically and horrible at social interactions and is the real way in-which he’s effected.

[@TimTrueheart]

The pic on the wall they're saying was Maggie was a baby Lisa wearing the same outfit and they look similar because they're sisters.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly

[@davidpaul9204]

Lisa's first crush was the substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom.

[@matthewdrummond1340]

That's what I thought too!

[@lapislazuli06]

Exactly!

[@sunnyjohnson992]

Yep, Dustin Hoffman!

[@Linmus]

The Simpson gene is pure cap. Outside of Herb, Homer is technically a genius. He just have a freaking crayon stuck in his brain.

[@jayb8934]

Inconsistencies regarding locations in Springfield make sense when you remember that there's a contingency plan to pick up the entire town and move it a few miles when they ruin the area, and we see them do this at least once. So it's possible that things aren't placed in the same relative locations when they settle on a new spot.

[@VidaAnimada]

"You never noticed" And then they start talking about 20 plot holes that even a 5-year-old would notice.

[@Kece89]

I have to admit, the one with Maggie's photo eluded me in the past decades.

[@captainnikolai25]

For number three, there was ANOTHER plot hole in Homer losing his hair. It was revealed in a flashback that Homer was so obsessed with his locks as a teenager, that he'd spend every waking minute brushing it. Abe warned him to stop, but Homer didn't, and ended up brushing himself bald.

[@lmr4403]

Homer's hair: when hearing about Marge's pregnancies he pulled out his hair, but in many flashbacks he still has hair with the children already born.

[@robertreid1579]

Good call mate. Homer ripping his hair out when finding out Marge is pregnant doesn't make sense to me. Because in the Season 4 episode Lisa's First Word, Homer had hair when Lisa was born.

[@inukaiser]

@@robertreid1579 and he didn't make a fuss,Homer seamed pleased with Marge being pregnant Lisa

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Ripping out your hair doesn't make you bald unless you damage the follicles themselves the hair will grow back.

[@lmr4403]

​@@SoManyRandomRamblings Shaving your head doesn't make you permanently bald, ripping all your hairs from your head will. Ripping out your hair makes you bald as you tear the hairroots. (and this was also explained as lore that that was how he became bald: so the authors wrote this as origin story for his bald head XD.)

[@SMToonAsia]

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[@September2004]

One of the Simpson’s biggest advantages is that it’s animated so they can have plot holes, have their fans notice it right away, and not care.

[@mr.whimsic6902]

I think it's based more on the show being more focused on comedy with its writing, along with it having over 30 seasons of episodes

[@September2004]

@@mr.whimsic6902 No, because if you had these inconsistencies in live action comedies, people would object more. And what does it mean to ‘focus more on comedy’? Compared to what? Sitcoms?

[@Shastasnow]

Defiantly stressed me out to watch xD so I don't watch

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

"And they can change the actors, and no one can tell the diddly-ifference"

[@sergoldenhandthejust1495]

Status quo my friend status quo and I love it

[@uiscepreston]

The producers of the Simpsons have always talked about the elastic reality of the Simpsons. They have absurdly tinkered with time and space since early on. Age in the active present seems to be set, the main kids never graduate to the next grade, etc. "Plot holes" are just jokes via inconsistency and irony. They even call out these continuity discrepancies all the time.

[@dsxa918]

I had a 'project' I was working on, with a fictional world as comparable to the Simpsons in having as many characters and events operating on a timeline. It took so many notes and notation, revision up to 'creative liberties' while forming it, to keep it along its storyline. It gave me a new appreciation for not holding it against fictional shows, the inconsistencies are a given if you don't plan with so much effort

[@gdparry2727]

i always assumed the Maggie picture is really Lisa

[@RobHorrorLive]

The Fat Tony one makes sense. Because there have been 2 Fat Tony's. One of them died and his cousin Fit Tony took over.

[@Maheli_Seli]

then „Fit Tony“ became „Fit Fat Tony“ and later „Fat Tony“ because he couldn’t stand the pressure of being a mafia boss. 😂 I just love it

[@dwaynedittoe2248]

and aliases are not uncommon in his line of work

[@LThunders138]

7:37 - my theory is: Flanders WAS at church. Early in the same episode we've seen Marge being the last to leave church, as her car wasn't starting, and it might have happened again the sunday the house burned. Ned arrived at the regular time and witnessed Simpson's house burning down, and HE KNEW Homer was at his house, since he has not seen him in church.

[@dsxa918]

That's such a good explanation

[@dsxa918]

13:23 or whatever - "I had so many shrimp" come off like a brag from someone who has outgrown an allergy, that said

[@JamesParker1998]

Or we can always say that God made Ned miss church that day to save Homer. That was my theory.

[@JamesParker1998]

@@dsxa918 You are right allergies can come and go at any time.

[@joermnyc]

Dr. Marvin Monroe disappeared because doing the voice was too painful for his voice actor.

[@dsxa918]

That's what I heard,

[@melissacooper8724]

There is one plothole that I had just noticed. In the Season 2 episode "Brush With Greatness" Marge had a major crush on Ringo Starr. It got to the point that she mailed his portrait she did of him to get his opinion on her artwork. At the time she was 17 or 18 years old in the year 1974. In the Season 6 episode "Fear Of Flying" we see a flashback of Marge at 5 or 6 years old in either 1966 or 1967 because she had a Monkees lunchbox and was made fun of for liking The Monkees! The mistake here is if Marge was 5 in 1966 she wouldn't have been in high school in 1974! She would've been 13 or 14 by then!

[@SocialExperiment232]

I love that the simpsons seems to have this sort of loose, flexible reality where events don’t really matter because the next episode everything is forgotten. Gives everything a whimsical, fantasy feel that can only work in animation. I love it!

[@TheMulToyVerse]

Yup, like that technology seems to advance by years and years in a matter of canonical weeks

[@trinaq]

Yes, the "Simpsons Gene" supposedly only affecting the males in the family always irked me. Not only is Herb a successful inventor, but Abe was shown to be competent on the battlefield, Bart is street smart to compensate for his lack of book smarts, and even Homer occasionally shows flashes of brilliance.

[@job489]

And how about the episode revealing a crayon was lodged in Homer's brain? When it was removed, Homer became a genius and connected with Lisa. In the end, the crayon was lodged back in his brain after the whole town hated him. That also contradicted the "Simpsons" gene.

[@MexicAnime]

The Simpson gene is just an excuse/ placebo to explain their dumb behavior.

[@monstersociety3360]

It goes deeper than that: There's a fan theory that EVERY member of the Simpsons family is a low-key genius. Lisa, obviously, but for now let's focus on Homer - while Homer is definitely a dumbass, some fans will recall he's only like that because he had a purple crayon in shoved in his brain through his nose when he was super young in that one episode. In that same episode, Homer has the crayon removed & he immediately becomes a genius, then he has it put back in because Lisa liked it better when he was an idiot. Applying this part of the fan theory to the "Simpsons gene" explanation, that means stupidity isn't running in the family in a genetic way at all! Homer just has brain damage! As for the rest of the Simpsons family, well, it may be a good idea to look up the rest of the fan theory.

[@JamesParker1998]

@@job489 I was going to bring that up as well.

[@davidparkes7741]

I mean let's not forget.... The guy works in a NUCLEAR POWERPLANT. Reactor core meltdowns aside, you have to have some brains for a job like that.

[@sgtjohnson]

Ned wasn’t always left handed. In a very early episode Ned signs a contract with his right hand and writes a note to Homer with his right hand, threw a bowling ball right handed, played guitar right handed (granted I play guitar lefty but pretty much every thing else right handed)

[@New2RetroReviews]

The Herb thing can be explained easily. While yes, he is a Simpson, his mother Gaby may have a genetic that blocks Herb from getting the Simpson gene or in full at least. I mean.....he did let a brother he never knew design a car and caused his company and stock to plummet so.....in a sense that DOES seem like a very Simpson thing to happen. Or, like anything else on the list, the writers just forgot, or enough time has passed that it doesn't really matter because all long running shows have loopholes like this.

[@Randomguy-oe2qy]

I think point 9 - locations in Springfield has an in universe explanation, when Homer becomes boss of the garbage men and ends flooding the entire town in garbage causing all the residents to move, you can see them literally moving all the buildings on the back of wagons and none of them seem fazed by this at all, like they’ve done it many times before. So every time something disastrous happens they all relocate with the buildings giving Springfield a different layout from time to time

[@jonathanfenton5496]

Over its many seasons The Simpsons had a handful of different writers. That explains at least a few of these inconsistencies.

[@flexivefowl8186]

I remember the first time seeing Marvin return I said to myself "I thought he was dead"?

[@trinaq]

Yes, it's a recurring joke within the show that several characters will note that they thought that Marvin was dead, only for him to handwave it.

[@girlhunter2102]

“These two popular Simpsons characters died in the past year. If you said Dr. Marvin Monroe and Bleeding Gums Murphy you are wrong! They were never popular.”

[@DynamixWarePro]

6:55 the background is also upside down for that one shot, then it is the right way up again in the next. In the "Das Bus" episode Homer never had a computer so Homer getting one in "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" isn't a plot hole.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

They clearly haven't actually watched the show..... very few of these are actually plot holes. Most can be explained by something in that episode or actual science.

[@crimsonmoonrise9785]

Another plot hole in Maggie makes 3 is Ruth Powers their neighbor (who didn't move to Springfield until after Maggie was born) was at the baby shower.

[@alm2187]

20. What stood out to me was the conflicting origins of Ned's speech quirks. That ep showed it to be a side effect of spanking therapy to cure him of swearing. The one with the Flanders reunion indicated it runs in the family. Which is it?

[@amandapike2477]

That Maggie picture is actually meant to be baby Lisa, who looked just like Maggie when she was a baby.

[@toddwebb7521]

The fact that all the characters have been the same age for 30+ years means there's going to be plot holes

[@cakes3958]

The whole point of Das Bus is that Homer is running an online business without even having a computer. “The internet is on computers now” exemplifies that. Nowhere in that episode do we see a computer so there is no plot hole in ‘The Computer Wore Menace Shoes’

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Yeah...they clearly didn't watch the episode, just read a brief summary of it and made this list.

[@Culinary_Nerds]

Can you do a list with the top 10 or 20 cliff hangers of shows that have been cancelled or ended? I wanna know what happens to them

[@matthewdrummond1340]

That would be great

[@melaniesenf7175]

Number 15 is such a senseless entry! Who could’ve guessed that the Simpsons will continue to be on?

[@exoroxx]

Allergies can emerge and also disappear, even during the childhood. I guess, Bart's allergy can be a plot hole, but it doesn't have to be one.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly

[@almightycinder]

Marge is too much of a helicopter parent to ever check again. If Bart had a problem with something once, she'd never let him near it again. He would never know if it still affected him or not.

[@exoroxx]

@@almightycinder But what if she doesn't know? You can have many small kinds of allergies, they come and go. And they aren't always very visible. I was allergic to tomatoes as a child, but I still loved to eat them. Someday the allergic reaction was gone.

[@JohnStanworth]

I think each season is a reboot in continuity. If Lisa had a crush in previous seasons, it doesn't count.

[@ScarysReviews]

Lisa's future is not a plot hole. Lisa was told her future, and we saw what it could be, and going through the years, events happened, situations changed. so, at that point in time, Maud and Edna were alive, and up to when Maud passed, and edna passed, that, changed the events, so the original vision would be different. also the maggie photo, whilst marge is pregnant, could be Lisa?. Herb is Homer's HALF brother, so... and or Abe is just losing it a bit, Homer's intelligence strengthens after the crayon is taken out, and has many moments of smarts. so, these arn't exactly plotholes watchmojo.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly

[@Eclipton]

The Simpsons very rarely follows continuity.

[@hooksangelsbliss]

what about the one where homer finds out his middle name and he was at Woodstock at the age of around 3 but if he's born in 1956 he would be much older. or the one where ned and the boys are in line to see the itchy and scratchy but in later episode the boys get freaked out seeing the show the first time

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

What about about Lisa’s other crush Landon Auger from the episode where Lisa gets sick and Bart, Milhouse, Nelson and Martin go to Branson Missouri?!?!

[@morimajo]

The Simpson gene also had the issue when homer became super intelligent after it was revealed he had a crayon lodged in his brain since he was a child. Pretty sure Grampa was just wrong

[@ianfeuerhake1859]

The episode where Patty came out ignored the episode where she almost married Principal Skinner

[@wildcatlh]

Herb Powell does have the Simpson gene. His car company was already in such dire straits that one bad car design killed it. And then he lost everything again after the baby translator.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly.

[@ff3player]

Maybe it was the whore's blood that protected Herb from the full effects of the Simpson's Gene

[@theadventuresofflop6408]

I always took the one where homer parks his car and is next to his house not as "the power plant is that close" but that he had to park so far away from work he's just at home still

[@freya8133]

Apu used to sing with Homer in the BeSharps in the 1980's but in the season 1 episode "Krusty Gets Busted" Apu calls Homer "Sir," obviously not knowing his name!

[@GilGunderson-xz9qz]

You missed this one, How was Ruth Powers at Maggie's baby shower? They didn't stay next door at the time Marge was pregnant with her.

[@TfMG539]

Ned's wives don't count because one is real life RIP, and the other is a payment issue death

[@matthewdrummond1340]

YES!!! 💯

[@Blaze_Nights]

Yea thats not a plot hole or much of retcon

[@JamesParker1998]

Todd and Rodd's ages are also a plot hole. Technically Rodd is supposed to be 12, and Todd Bart's age. Lies is supposed to be younger than them both. But in another episode LIsa is already born, and Rod who is older is not born. I

[@Narutonarutonaruto85]

I'm a bit confused about the computer example. In Das Bus he finds out Flanders has an internet company and seeks to do the same, but it's clear he has no idea what he is doing and later learns from a book that "they have internet on computers now." I'm not sure how he got an advertisement on a computer or how he attracted Bill Gates' attention and I doubt he has any idea either. I think it may have been stated he doesn't even own a computer. As for the family ending up on an island, that was just Bart and Lisa with their classmates. You showed footage of a later episode when Homer becomes an online conspiracy theorist.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Yeah....it legit seems like they haven't ever watched the show...just making desperate random grabs in the dark. Less than half of these are actually plot holes, and them actually paying attention (or using science from our world) explains most of these.

[@exoroxx]

4:54 It's cool how Homer didn't have hair before (the photo on the right). It grows everytime?! 😆😁

[@kebabloodmoon6848]

"HaHa! I miss her too." Dang, right in the feels.

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

Herb’s intelligence did start to go away, he trusted Homer to make a car

[@liberispuritatem]

IKR? That's the point of the whole episode. That Herb is another Simpson idiot.

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! When I started watching The Simpsons back in 1990, I always thought Krusty the Clown was Homer Simpson in disguise until they appeared in the same scene. 🤣

[@TwilightLink77]

With Maude & Edna the future wasn’t set in stone so the future could change even their deaths

[@LavenderFx]

I mean, technically, the pictures could just be of Lisa as a baby.

[@COMPFUNK2]

Bart the Fink - Krusty faked his own death by having his jet crash into a mountain that is within eyeshot of the Simpsons’ house. That mountain range never appeared again.

[@ElectroPlasmaAnimator]

8:17 simple, Ned noticed the absence of the Homer, so he went to Go get him

[@restionSerpentine]

We see the powerplant next to a river, in Mother Simpson, and the Movie

[@wikidleigh]

The nuclear plant was around when Smithers was a baby in "The Blunder Years". The Simpson gene is also inconsistent with the "HOMR" episode. There was another episode where Moe's was close to the house. I think a few actually. I love "The Simpsons" and all their inconsistencies ❤

[@mattparkent440]

The Simpsons doesn't have any plot holes. And for #12, God has been proven to exist and He speaks directly to Ned Flanders multiple times. It's obvious that God told Ned not to go to church so he could save Homer.

[@COMPFUNK2]

So anyway…

[@melissacooper8724]

I felt that made sense on why Ned stayed home while the rest of his family went to church.

[@MTTT19]

Continuity in this show went out of the window a very long time ago.

[@kumarapranav8113]

Also Krusty is shown to be illiterate at first but in later episodes he is shown to be proof reading his lines in his tv show

[@cakes3958]

Marge is so underrated.

[@Will_kid_cortez]

That voice is so hard to listen to in the newer episodes

[@kob2fly]

Lisa and Maggie do look alike and have the same hair style. Maybe it was Lisa and the once was just giving to Maggie

[@gandalainsley6467]

The memory plot holes could be explained very easily. They remember it wrong. Like hitman contracts game was built on that idea. Also the prediction lady could be explained easily too. She made it up like usually people who predict future do.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Also...almost every time travel concept has the fact that the future isn't set in stone and can be changed. Mojo doesn't understand the definition of 'plot hole'

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

20: In the episode, Ned meets his doctor who treated him with the Minnesota Spankological Protocol 30-odd years ago, making Ned 30/40 years old.

[@ftodd1]

4:43 they probably thought the pic could also look like a bay Lisa.

[@jahprime6932]

I knew this was a waste of time and I think Mojo does too. But we're in agreement any reason to watch clips is worth it.

[@isaiahach]

i never thought of the Simpsons having one continuous timeline where all events take place but that it takes place in a multiverse. like the episode where it's revealed that Skinner isn't the real Seymour Skinner. that episode and any other episode that mentions it takes place in it's own universe.

[@martinoswald6676]

In the Series there are also different Stories of how Chief Wiggum got his job. Don't know which Episodes exactly.

[@Blackbeardz99]

Homer and marge from different universes 😂😂😂😂😮

[@alm2187]

Almost Escherian conundrum at 10:21! You can see the four-corners states on that map! Simpsons reality has FIVE corners, though! What states are they? (Another question: was this before or after the movie which depicted them moving to Alaska? It's already crossed out on that map.)

[@dutchtulips]

I'm pretty sure the "did you know his real name is marion?" line is a john wayne joke.

[@cooperbourke7717]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed all of these inconsistencies.

[@nixda9326]

sorry, but everyone already know that the Flashbacks contradict each other. its one of the essential Things that made the Simpsons so special. dont know why you made a whole List of this.

[@radrobd123]

#18) Lisa's first crush was actually on her substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom (played by Dustin Hoffman)

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

5:16 mojo thinks things are fated and that the future can never be changed...now we know mojo doesn't believe in time travel and their paradoxes. 😂😂 that's not a plot hole. Lol.

[@yo_hippie1326]

If you ask me, I think trusting Homer to design a car for your company qualifies him to have the gene.

[@tonycoffey2485]

Simpsons critici5sm isn't as good as it used to be. And please stop the vocal fry. Highly irritating..

[@Unknown964t]

About the ned flanders one maybe god gave his a sign about hpmer in a fire about that day

[@nicktaylor2657]

Not only is Bart allergic to shrimp and Butterscotch he is also allergic to cauliflower It was discovered during that episode where Bart got fat 😊

[@Marky11694]

You do know The Simpsons has No Continuity between Episodes and I would argue the Simpsons has their own Multiverse where all these differences between episodes are explained away as being different realities

[@buddymckane1179]

Homer has a Crayon lodged in his cerebral cortex, I hate that episode!

[@ThomasWallutis]

The confusion with Fat Tonys name is maybe based on the fact that there are two Fat Tonys: the original one and his cousin(?). First known as Fit Tony, later as Fit Fat Tony and then as Fat Tony.

[@ZoeMalDoran]

except both names were given before the first Fat Tony died

[@Gor85]

Maggie makes three,Maude and Edna exist in the future,Lisa's first crush,Santa's Little,Helper's first appearance, Bart;s allerigies,Marge's alergies :) fantastic episode😁 her screaming in the plane😁,Simpson's address. Homer and Marge backstory. They changed plots and lot. They wanted to make it more modern and relatable. And it's ran for over 30 years. Nothing wrong with changing plots. Though it's confusing sometimes. Great video😊

[@nasirmathias712]

The home address of course changes due to the garbage man episode where the town plan is too move the town. Which is stated to have happened a few times.

[@TheMulToyVerse]

Remember kids… just because you aren’t *~supposed~* to go to any state that isn’t North Dakota or Arizona, doesn’t mean you CAN’T go to any state that isn’t North Dakota or Arizona

[@georgematthews4436]

Bart learned multiple languages and became chief justice of the supreme court. Homer somehow built a reactor.

[@scotttravels517]

They talk about Simpson gene but some of them the Simpson men had ok jobs one shot birds at airport that good job

[@supersonicjc]

some of those plot holes are just because the show has been on for so long and if memory serves right the writers even said that after the end of each episode its basically a reset of the show timing, reasons as to why bart is forever been in 4th grade and lisa in 2nd, plus as the decades roll around it makes sense to redo the backstories of some characters... honestly pick 10 seasons and you have a stable timeline but anything past that and you run into the issues...

[@Tussin59]

The baby picutre of maggie could be a baby picture of Lisa as there is a baby picture of bart

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

Herb might be subject to the Simpson gene. He lost his car company, which was already in trouble, by allowing Homer to head a disasterous development program while ignoring the warnings of his engineers. He then lost his second fortune off screen.

[@etoregames1696]

7:38 I actually can explain this one he went back for homer. He wants to bring homer to church. He’s being a good neighbor that’s worried for his friend mental and spiritual well being. So props to Ned Flanders for being a good Christian man

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Exactly. I swear they don't actually watch the episodes 😒

[@etoregames1696]

@@SoManyRandomRamblings I haven’t watched it but the content is there to make the assumption

[@xynthymr]

The baby photo on the wall is clearly Lisa as a baby. They also have a baby Bart photo on the wall. Lisa, as a baby, obviously looked just like Maggie does now. And we've seen future episodes where grown-up Maggie looks similar to Lisa. They're sisters after all. So not a plot hole, just wishful speculation. It's clearly Lisa.

[@Baysidemom2]

right? I know tons of kids that looked nearly identical to their siblings as babies and then change as they get older

[@SocialExperiment232]

My son looks identical to me as a baby. Looking at the pictures side by side is like baby me time traveled or something. He still looks a lot like me but then baby pictures are shocking 😂

[@freiflug83]

Surprised Smither's original skin color wasn't mentioned

[@gfear24]

The picture of "Maggie" is likely Lisa as a baby. They literally have the same hair.

[@glenjohnson1238]

No plotholes. It's part of the charm of the show. They just don't care about plot holes. The poke fun at themselves a lot.

[@liberispuritatem]

Half of these aren't plot holes, it's just the "floating timeline" a lot of Cartoons use.

[@barabased50]

My mom says that God had it planned for Ned to stay home from church so he could save Homer 😅